DA blames Chris Boyd for error, shortly after Vanderbilt dismisses him from football team

6:58 PM,
Sep. 17, 2013

Vanderbilt quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels

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Brian Haas
The Tennessean

On the same day that Vanderbilt kicked starting wide receiver Chris Boyd off the football team for trying to cover up a June 23 rape incident involving teammates in a university dorm, prosecutors said the university's starting quarterback was "misidentified" as having been on the scene after the attack.

Boyd was removed from the team, Vanderbilt said in a prepared statement, because his "admitted actions are clearly inconsistent with the high standards of behavior expected of our student-athletes." But that statement and public comments by the prosecutor raised new questions about ...